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City council launched a search for partners to join the municipality in building new baseball diamonds, during its meeting at the public school board office Monday night.

Council approved the initiative without any discussion. It wants city staff to start looking for partners for the project, which would include two diamonds with field lighting, dugouts and parking.

Municipal officials will approach Trent University and the local school boards, as well as other organizations.

Peterborough Baseball Association has already committed to give $250,000 over a number of years plus it’s trying to get another $150,000 from a Toronto Blue Jays program that supports the creation of baseball diamonds in communities.

Peterborough currently has one official-size baseball diamond — Riverside Ball Diamond in James Stevenson Park. With a single official-size diamond, baseball teams end up using slo-pitch fields.

Peterborough Baseball Association has about 650 children playing in its league and it has to turn away children who want to register because the city doesn’t have enough fields to support growth, the association told a city committee in October.

Other items council approved without discussion include:

• Renaming Stocker Park, which is a small park of less than an acre on Stocker Rd. off Crawford Dr., as Glenn Pagett Park in honour of Glenn Pagett who served for 27 years as a south-end ward councillor and has volunteered for many community activities.

• Increasing the value of the contract with Genivar for the environmental assessment for road network realignment around Crawford Dr. and Harper Rd. by $41,810 to $191,699.98 from $149,889.98 to pay for additional work related to the environmental assessment process.

• Selling 2.21 acres at 270 Jameson Dr. in Major Bennett Industrial Park to 2357439 Ontario Inc., which is the property holding company for Canadian Life Sciences, for $88,280 to facilitate the company’s plans to relocate its headquarters from Lansdowne St. and grow its workforce in the city to 25 employees from 15 employees.

• Selling 2.21 acres at 260 Jameson Dr. in Major Bennett Industrial Park to NPV Investments for $88,280 to facilitate the company’s plans to build a six-unit industrial condominium facility.

• Buying 296 Mason Ave. for $210,000 plus land transfer tax to acquire property the city needs for the future widening of Chemong Rd.

• Buying 1494 Sherbrooke St. for $240,000 plus land transfer tax to acquire property the city needs for future improvements to Sherbrooke St.

• Rezoning for 152 lots in a planned new Mason Homes subdivision northeast of Chemong Rd. and Milroy Dr.

• Zoning changes for the next phase of the Heritage Park subdivision off Carnegie Ave. in the city’s north end, which would add another 102 single-detached homes.

• Changing the zoning bylaw for 391 Parkhill Rd. W. to allow the property to be used for as many as two dwelling units on full municipal services.

• Changing the zoning bylaw for 248 Hunter St. W., which is known as 1-3 Fleming Place, to allow small scale retail space with up to 250 square metres of floor area per commercial use in the building that’s currently used for apartments.

• Rezoning 303 Brock St., which is being converted to a 12-unit residential building.